Manual
From autokey
Always prompt before pasting this phrase : When selected the phrase is not pasted/replaced automatically.Once Autokey finds a match to the abbreviation it will show the phrase description where the mouse pointer is and then you need to click on that phase description and then it will paste the phrase.
Show in Tray menu : When selected the phrase Description will be shown when you right click on the Autokey icon in the tray.
Remove typed abbreviation : This will remove the typed abbreviation and replace it with the replacement text.
Omit Trigger Character: When replacing the abbreviation, omit the character that triggered replacement, e.g. if you type brb<space>, it will be replace as be right back, and the space will be discarded. This option only has an affect if immediate = false
Match phrase case to typed abbreviation : if set to true, will match the case of the replacement with the case of the abbreviation as typed. For example, if you typed Brb, you'd get Be right back. For this to work, ignorecase must be set to true.
Ignore case of typed abbreviation: if set to false, the case of the abbreviation type must match the case in the configuration file exactly, otherwise the abbreviation will not trigger.
Trigger when typed as a part of word : if set to true, a non-word character (as defined in the wordchars option) is not required to trigger the abbreviation.
Trigger immediately(don't require a trigger character) : if set to true, will trigger the abbreviation when it is typed as part of a word (as defined in the wordchars option). E.g. if you typed mebrb, you'd end up with mebe right back.
Use a hotkey :If you want to associate a hotkey to your phrase, you can specify it here.You can use any combination of keys(Control,Alt,Shift,Super N.B. Super key on some keyboards is a House or Windows logo in a circle etc) here along with any key you set.In order to set a Key you need to first press the "Set Key" button and then press the key in the area where there is an o in the screenshote above.
So in the above screentshot when the user presses the Super+o then it will trigger the Second phrase.
At this point other keys like multimedia keys(like Volume Up/Down/Mute) etc are not supported.
Window Filter:In here you specify whetherr the Phrase is supposed to be executed , in all windows or only when the Title of the window matches.
Special Hotkeys:
Use a hotkey to show the configuration window :Here ,you specify the key combination which will be used to bring up the configuration of Autokey.This key is very useful because if you are running without a tray icon for autokey , you will not be able to interact with Autokey.
Use a hotkey to toggle expansions : Here ,you specify the key combination which will be used to toggle expansions of hotkey.Essentially if you want to suspend Autokey from doing anything or resume a suspended Autokey.
Use a hotkey to show the abbreviations popup: This will popup a window where you can search your abbreviations and select them.
Enter a command to be executed :This popup , comes up when you click on Edit->Insert Macro->Run shell command.
So for example , you want to execute the date command and get the output of the date command and stick it into your phrase dynamically, you would type in date in the above dialog box.
Note that since we are going to need the output of the date command to go into our phrase dynamically , we would keep the "Ignore command output" , unchecked.
Ignore command output :This should be checked when you are running a shell command which executes a GUI based process.For command line utilities which you are executing like say for example date where in you are waiting for the output of the command to stick back in the phrase , you would keep it unselected.
